Hinsdale Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 45 out of 100. How does Hinsdale Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 45 out of 100.
Calm 31, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 72, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Hinsdale Street in the bottom 32% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (67) and tree cover (88). Housing (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Hinsdale Street name unsanitary condition than any other category, 71 of them. Across every category, 799 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 9% of them name unsanitary condition. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 65 reports, then residential noise at 61. In all, 60 distinct 311 categories are represented on Hinsdale Street. The 311 file works out to about 96 reports for every 100 homes on Hinsdale Street.
Inspectors have written 166 Class C violations on Hinsdale Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 20 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 85 violations on file. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (85 violations) and doors (46). 246 residential buildings on Hinsdale Street hold the 831 homes on file, 46 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 3.4 homes to a building.
NYPD records 37 people injured in crashes on Hinsdale Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 58 among built-up residential streets and traffic safety ranks 11. An 11 on traffic safety places Hinsdale Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. The card also puts parking at 52 and cleanliness at 42 among built-up residential streets. Against every street in the city, Hinsdale Street ranks 85 on transit and 39 on food nearby. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 88. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Hinsdale Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Hinsdale Street is quietness, at 67.
40% of the 831 homes recorded on Hinsdale Street are rent-stabilized, 303 homes in all.
Scores are built from 311 complaints, HPD violations, NYPD crash records, NYPD felony complaint records, MTA stop locations, DOHMH food permits, and the street tree census, divided by the homes and businesses on the street, updated weekly. Read the scoring method or the data sources.
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Hinsdale Street runs through East New York & New Lots and East New York, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Brooklyn, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).